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by Flann O'Brien (Author)
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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Flamingo; New edition edition (11 Oct 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0586089535
  • ISBN-13: 978-0586089538
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 12.9 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 101,068 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Considered by the author to be almost a work of science fiction, the book includes among its "characters" St Augustine, James Joyce and a man who is in danger of turning into a bicycle. There is also the first published portrait of the mad scientist, who was later to achieve fame as de Selby.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Flann does it again, 19 Feb 2002
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The Dalkey Archives is essentially a portrait of the insane philosopher/mad professor De Selby, so often referred to in the extended footnotes of O' Brien's opus The Third Policeman.

The book's more satirical elements never impinge on the laughs to be had from the farcical expolits of De Selby in his twisted plot to deprive the work of oxygen.

Read The Third Policeman and then this. You will be extremely pleased.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A POST-MODERN CLASSIC, 5 Oct 1999
This text draws heavily on, no reproduces parts of O 'Brien's unparalled " The Third Policeman".

A comic tour-de-force,this book attacks his familiar targets of the Gaelic revival, Modernism (James Joyce) and the Irish State: and at a time when it was neither popular nor profitable to do so. Not a patch on the "Third Policeman" but then nothing else is?

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3.0 out of 5 stars At your own risk, 21 Sep 2008
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The Dalkey Archive is a risky read - you risk never reaching for anything that O'Brien wrote again. He did not write that much but still it would be a pity to miss out At Swim-Two-Birds or The Third Policeman. Archive is a spin-off of the latter novel. Coherent, funny at places but it is more of sustained effort than tour-de-force which you have all the rights to expect from O'Brien.
There is little of plot here - two young Irish gentlemen meet by chance a mad scientist and having learned about his plan to annihilate humanity try to stop him from doing so. Characters as different as St Augustine and James Joyce make cameo appearances but they add little to the slim plot. The sad facts of the case are that O'Brien failed to make the expected splash with his first novel, his second wasn't even published and he went on making a brilliant career as a satirical columnist. When twenty years later At Swim-Two-Birds was resurrected and hailed as the first post-modern novel, he tried to go back to writing fiction but with little artistic success. And yet this is a classic so why not give it a chance?
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2.0 out of 5 stars Too Much Rebicycling
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